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Trevor Carpenter is a photowalker and blogger who has issued a few challenges in the past. The most recent is the December challenge, which is one portrait a day. I haven’t been particularly good at following this one because I don’t get to shoot every day.

His 2008 challenge, however, is something I can definitely aim for. You need to spend the whole year photographing your local community and post one picture per week. The term “community” is loosely defined. His blog post has more info.

I’ll almost certainly interpret the term quite literally and post a picture a week from the town I live in. Considering it’s an old goldrush town there should be plenty of stuff I can capture and post.

What I’ll need to decide in the next few days is what style I’ll shoot. I might add an extra twist and shoot everything black and white, although I love shooting color and using strong vignetting and contrast to draw the eye toward the subject. Regardless, I’ve committed to shooting and posting once a week.

I was going to go out for a 10km run this morning but really just couldn’t be bothered.

I went out with the camera instead and spent an hour wandering around the railyards. There’s so much detail there; I’ve shot there before and I’m sure I’ll do it again. It’s a great place to visit.

There’s a photoset up on flickr…

EDIT: I’ve posted them to a SmugMug gallery too.